Provision of services within a virtual framework for resource sharing across institutional boundaries has become an active research area. Many such services encode access to compu...
At any given time, the stability of a community depends on the right balance of trust and distrust. Furthermore, we face information overload, increased uncertainty and risk takin...
In multi-agent communities, trust is required when agents hold different beliefs or conflicting goals. We present a framework for decomposing agent reputation into competence—...
When an agent resides in a community, the opinion of other community members concerning whether a particular individual is trustworthy or not influences the trust level of this ag...
Abstract. Agent’s meta-reasoning is a computational process that implements agent’s capability to reason on a higher level about another agent or a community of agents. There i...